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FDE as a service

An engineer at your side for project management

Progress tracking, steering committees and reporting take up time that project managers would rather spend on decisions. The engineer joins your organisation, watches how reporting actually gets built, then automates the repeated steps without changing your tools.

  • On your real projects
  • With your project managers
  • Reporting automated

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Key challenges

A PMO consolidates information coming from different sources, on different schedules, for different audiences. The real work, deciding and arbitrating, gets diluted in formatting: renaming a file, marking its status, copying a figure from one table to another. These are gestures that repeat identically from one project to the next, and that suit a script better than a manual intervention.

  • Scattered reporting

    Progress reports live in separate Word files, spreadsheets and slide decks that someone has to gather by hand before every committee.

  • Status marked by hand

    Each document has to carry its status (draft, in progress, approved) before it is shared, a marking step repeated across dozens of files.

  • Planning and resources to cross check

    A project's real progress is read by crossing planning, resource load and open risks, sources that do not talk to each other.

  • Consolidation across projects

    The steering committee expects a combined view across several projects, while each project manager tracks their own in their own format.

What the engineer does on your site

  • 1

    Watch the real pilotage work

    The engineer follows the production of a status report or a committee end to end, with the project managers, before proposing any tool.
  • 2

    Automate the repeated gesture

    Watermarking a batch of reports, merging a report with its annexes, renaming and sorting by status: a script replaces file by file manipulation.
  • 3

    Connect the tool to what exists

    Planning, resource and risk data stay in your existing project management tools; the engineer connects the automation on top, without demanding a migration.
  • 4

    Hand the tool to the PMO

    The tool is put in the hands of the PMO and project managers from the first batches, so it gets corrected against real use rather than an assumption.

What stays in your hands

  • A reporting tool in production

    A process that marks, assembles and sorts project documents, usable by your teams without you.

  • A cross project consolidation

    A combined view fed by your projects' existing data, with no re-keying.

  • A log of every process run

    Each processed batch is traced: what, when, by whom, so the automation stays checkable.

  • A trained team

    Project managers and the PMO know how to use, correct and stop the tool without depending on the engineer.

Expected results

  • Less manipulation, more decisions

    Time reclaimed from formatting reports goes back into analysis and decision making.

  • A reliable consolidated view

    The steering committee gets a shared reading, built from the same data as the project managers.

  • A tool that gets adopted

    Built with project managers rather than delivered next to them, the tool fits their habits instead of disrupting them.

How we move forward

  1. 1

    Watching the real work

    The engineer follows the production of a report or a committee, from gathering information through to distribution.
  2. 2

    First batch in production

    A narrow scope, one precise gesture automated, tested on real documents from your projects.
  3. 3

    Correction with project managers

    They decide whether the process holds up against the edge cases of their own projects.
  4. 4

    Extension and handover

    The automation extends to the other repeated reporting gestures, then use passes to the PMO.

Who it is for

This service is for PMOs, project managers and programme directors who spend a disproportionate amount of time formatting progress tracking, reports and committee documents, and who want to consolidate several projects without changing their project management tool.

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Frequently asked questions

Can project reporting be automated without changing project management tools ?Yes. The engineer connects the automation to the tools already in place, planning, workload tracking, risk management, without requiring a migration to another system.
How does an engineer fit alongside existing project management tools ?They watch how your teams already use those tools, then automate the gestures that repeat around them, such as status marking or report assembly, without duplicating what the tool already does.
What happens to the confidentiality of processed project documents ?Documents stay within your perimeter; each process run is traced in a log, and temporary copies needed for processing are deleted once their use is over.
How do you get adoption from project managers ?The tool is put in their hands from the first batch, corrected on their feedback, rather than designed remotely and imposed once finished.
Do you need artificial intelligence to automate project reporting ?Not always. Many reporting gestures, marking a status, merging documents, consolidating a table, are handled by a plain script, with no AI model involved.

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We always start by understanding the real work. One conversation is enough to know whether we can help, and how.

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